Improvement in military hats



" UNITED STATES... PATENT OFFICE.

WILLIAM F. WARBURTON, PHILADELPHIA, PENNSYLVANIA.

IMPROVEMENT MILITARY HATS.

Specication forming part of Letters Patent No. 34,538, dated February25, 1862.

To all whom, it may concern.'

Be it known that I, WILLIAM F. WARBUR- TON, of Philadelphia,Pennsylvania, have invented anew and useful Improvement in Military Hats5 and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exactdescription of the same, reference being had to the accompanyingdrawings, and to the letters of reference marked thereon.

My invention consists of a cape and movable sweat-band, so combined andso arranged within a hat or cap that the sweat-band shall serve toretain the cape in an elevated position, and when moved shall permit thecape to fall when it is required to protect the neck and face from theeffects ofthe sun, storms, dac.

The main object of my invention has been to provide military hats with apermanent cape or curtain without disiiguring the exterior and withoutthe necessity of departing from the ordinary regulation patterns.

In order to enable others to -make and use y my invention, I will nowproceed to describe the manner in which it is constructed and applied.

On reference to the accompanying drawings, which form a part of thisspecification, Figures l and 2 are sectional views of a military hat ofthe regulation pattern with my improvement.l Figs. 3 and 4 are sectionalviews-of a fatigue cap with a modification of my improvement, and Fig. 5an inverted plan View of Fig. l.

Onreference to Figs. l and 2, A represents the body, and B the rim, ofthe hat, C being the sweat-band, about one-half of which is secured inthe usual manner to the interior of the hat, the rear half beingdisconnected therefrom, so that it can be drawn forward away from theinterior of the body, as best observed on reference to the plan View,Fig. 5.

To the inside ofthe hat, between the body of the same and thesweat-band, is secured a curtain or cape D, which when not required foruse may be packed away in the interior of the body, as shown in Fig. 1.When the curtain has to be used, however, the rear of the sweat-band Cis drawn forward, so that the curtain can fall to the position shown inFig. 2, after which the sweat-band, which is made of a material somewhatelastic, is allowed to recover its former position against the interiorof the hat. The upperend of the curtain D extends throughout and isattached to about one-half of the circumference of the hat, and isextensive enough to cover the back of the head and neck, as well as theopposite sides of the face of the wearer, the cape or curtain beingfurnished with projecting ends dd, having any suitable appliances forconnecting one end to the other under the chin.

In order that the loose rear of the sweatband may be retained in itsproper vertical position, it may be connected by means of a band or tapeE to the interior of the hat, this tape being so situated that itpermits the sweat-band to be brought forward when the curtain has to bewithdrawn from the interior the wearers head.

It will be evident that while the curtain D affords the desiredprotection to the neck and face of the wearer, its adoption involves nonecessity for changing the form of the hat from the usual regulationpattern.

In Figs. 3 and 4 the cape is made of a somewhat stiffer material thanthat referred to above, and is formed to fit snugly to the interior ofthe hat or cap, the upper end of the curtain being in this instanceconnected to the top of the interior of the hat by a piece F of muslinor other suitable material. The sweat-band O extends throughout aportion only of the circumference of the hat, the rear portion of thesweat-band being form ed either by lining that portion of the interiorof the cape D which bears against the head with material of whichsweat-bands are usually composed, or 'by making the entire cape of thatmaterial. When the curtain is not required for use, it occupies theposition shown in Fig. 3 in the interior of the hat, and is held in thatposition by the sweat-band C. On folding the latter down, however, thecurtain will at once fall to the position shown in Fig. 4, after whichthe sweat-band may be again turned up.

I do not desire to claim, broadly, so attachof the body, but so as notto interfere with ing a cape or curtain tothe interior of a hat orpermit the cape to fall, as herein set forth, for cap that it may bepacked away in the same the purpose specified. or be Withdrawn atpleasure; but In testimony whereof I have signed my I claim as myinvention and desire to sename to this specification in the presence ofcure by Letters Patenttwo subscribing witnesses.

The cape or curtain D and movable sweat- WM. F. WARBURTON. band C, whenso combined and arranged that- Witnesses: the sweat-band shall serve toretain the cape HENRY HOWSON,

in an elevated position, and when moved shall l JOHN WHITE.

